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'Empowering Cambodia' Development Program
~ Providing the Cambodian people with long term solutions through the provision of quality development projects.
We provide age appropriate training and development projects related to education, health, life skills, recreation and financial sustainability for communities.
We believe in the old Proverb ... 'It takes a whole village to raise a child'
and they will raise the children the only way they know how. Just as history
has taught them.
Knowing how the genocide has impacted the lives of the Cambodian people and knowing that needs to change, we focus on equipping and empowering the people within the village. This ensures that the lives of young children, adolescents and adults within the community are enriched.
'The education of a man is never completed until he dies.' Robert E. Lee
Water and Sanitation Hygiene (WASH)
Our vision is to provide village people with a WASH Project, that provides a community with access to better quality water, improved effective sanitation and also provides the necessary health and hygiene education and training
required to improve the health standards of the people involved in the project.
As you can appreciate, the people of immediate concern are those families who currently have NO access to clean drinking water OR sanitation facilities. Some of the people we know wait all day before they can get some 'privacy' in the dark of night 'to go' in the field. These same people also have to walk long distances to bath in the river or swamp.
Agriculture & Horticulture
This project provides poor village people with the opportunity to 'sow and reap' from a harvest that they have only ever previously been able to dream of. And it is so simple!
Through the provision of land, seed, water and tools, this project has a real impact on those who previously did not have the means to provide for their family through farming. It is also a great opportunity for the parents to 'till and toil' in the soil, together.
Capacity Building
'A child miseducated is a child lost.' John F. Kennedy
We believe that education is a great key to giving poor, vulnerable children hope and a bright future and have a vision to establish creative development and learning centres throughout the city and provincial districts.
'Everything that is really great and inspiring is created by the individual who can labor in freedom.' Albert Einstein
Nelson Mandela said ... 'Sometimes, it falls upon a generation to be great. You can be that great generation.'
Each centre project is especially designed, with a focus on development and life skills training, to ensure that the students study in an environment that is conducive to supporting the primary, secondary and tertiary students from a holistic perspective.
'There is nothing training cannot do. Nothing is above its reach. It can turn bad morals to good; it can destroy bad principles and recreate good ones; it can lift men to angelship.' Mark Twain
The students development, welfare, education, schooling, tutoring, spiritual, cultural and artistic development are a top priority. Consequently, we ensure that the project is advantageous to the students and in accordance with the main theories of development. These young people are the future of this nation!
'Let’s tell our young people that the best books are yet to be written; the best paintings have not yet been painted; the best governments are yet to be formed; the best is yet to be done by them.' John Erskine
Various vocational skills training, capacity building and education scholarships are also available as part of our capacity building project.
CARE Program
Because you care ... you are welcome to join our 'Cambodia's Angels for Radical Empowerment' ~ CARE program ~ and show the people just how much you care.
A donation secures your place on the team of supporters who make the development centres a reality.
Vocational Skills Training & Income Generation
Sew Empowered ~ Handmade & Fairly Trading
... 'From the manner in which a woman draws her thread at every stitch of her needlework, any other woman can surmise her thoughts.' Honore de Balzac
Our 'Sew Empowered' 'fairly trading' sewing project is certainly equipping, empowering and enriching the lives of the women in the project.
We are delighted to have overseas markets which include Calypso Costumes and u-chus, Australia, and Tom Stiegler & Co., USA
Calypso Costumes
... are certain to inspire children's imagination.
u-chus
Women of Perth ... helping women of the world.
The project has produced beautiful designs made of silk, organza, satin, tulle, linen and cotton and a number of the designs are unique which allows the individual making them to explore their creative flair as they work with the fabrics and trimmings and develop their personal style.
'Sew Empowered' ~ Inspirational Silk Screened T Shirts
~ Beautiful Handmade and 'fairly traded' Inspirational Silk Screen T Shirts for Men, Women and Children ~ A Single Word To Remind You About What You May Forget!
Cute and colourful little train, helicopter, racing car and teddy silk screens are also available for the kids.
Business EnterpriseAs part of our development project, adults are offered advice and training in sustainable business enterprise opportunities.
'Kids Knowing Kids'
'Kids Knowing Kids' is a fun, informative, interactive presentation which introduces children in schools and churches in the 'Western World' to the Cambodian children's lifestyle and Cambodian history.
Advising & Networking
We are passionate about serving alongside other ministries, at their invitation, to assist them with the administrative planning and training required to achieve their goals. We enjoy seeing their vision unfold and come to fruitian and the wonderful life changing impact this has on the people they serve in this nation.
We also have the privilege of serving in executive positions on the boards of local and international organizations and councils. These organisations serve children at risk, those requiring drug and substance abuse rehabilitation and prisoners.
Volunteer With 'Empowering Cambodia'
If you are interested in sharing in our projects by volunteering your gifts and talents, join our team at Empowering Cambodia for a meaningful, heartwarming experience, as you volunteer and replace your usual touristy run of the mill holidays. As you give of your time and talents and bless the Cambodian people, you will be amazed how blessed you are, too!
Contact us from the 'Contact Us' page on this website to request an application form.
Like John F. Kennedy said ... 'One person can make a difference and everyone should try'.
Join us and make your next holiday count.
'Empowering Cambodia' is a member of VIVA ~ Together for Children.
| purposed and dedicated to breaking the poverty cycle through equipping, empowering and enriching the lives of the Cambodian people |